Sony Investigating Possible Cyber Attack

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Says it may have been targeted from an "outside party."

By Jim Reilly

Sony said today it is investigating what caused PlayStation Network and its web domains to suffer from outages yesterday. The company issued a statement this morning suggesting it was a possible target from an "outside party." The statement can be read in full below:

We are currently investigating, including the possibility of targeted behavior of an outside party. If this is indeed caused by such an act, we want to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service. Our engineers are working to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers' continued support.

Yesterday, the hacker group known as Anonymous issued a threat to Sony saying it would attack its web domains. Sony later said PSN would be "undergoing sporadic maintenance" and that access to the PSN "may be interrupted throughout the day."